Divider



(No Model.)

G. GR IMBLE.

DIVIDER.

No. 368,086. Patented Aug; 9, 1887.

Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE GRIMBLE, OF GILBOA, INDIANA.

DIVIDER.

SPECIFICATION forming, part of Letters Patent No. 368,086, dated August 9, 1887.

Application filed March 23. 1887. Serial No. 232,084. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE GRiMBLE, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Gilboa township, in the county of Benton and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dividers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invent-ion, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to'make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which i Figure 1 is a perspective view of as much of the platform or table of a reaper as is necessary to'illustrate the position of my improved divider. Fig. 2 is a side view of the divider seen from the outside, and Fig. 3 is a similar View seen from the inner side.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has 'relation to dividers for reapers; and it consists in the-improved con struction and combination of parts of a divider, in which the shoe or point may follow the surface of the ground without the necessity of tilting the table of the reaper, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the table or platform of the reaper, having the finger-bar 2 and the sicklebar 3, which all may be of any desired construction.

The bodyplate i of the divider is secured to the forward end of the side piece or flange,

5,0f the'table, having asuitable recess or notch, 6, in its lower edge for the passage of the sickle-bar, and the inner recessed face 7 of this plate is formed with two cross-pieces,8 and 9, secured to the plate with their ends and placed vertically across the recessed face of the plate.

The inner end of an arm, 1 O, is pivoted upon a bolt, 11, inserted through the inner crosspiece and through the plate, the arm rocking between the cross-pieces and the recessed face of the plate, and the outer forwardly-project ing end of this arm is provided with a pointed shoe, 12, of substantially the same shape as the shoe or nose found upon the dividers generally used.

A long curved finger, 13, is secured to the upper side of this shoe and extends over the upper edge of the plate, and two rearwardly extending curved fingers, 14 and 15, are secured to the rear end of the shoe at both sides of the arm supporting the shoe and extend to the pivotal bolt of the arm and slightly beyond the same, the finger 14 at the outer side ofthe arm and plate having preferably a greater curve than the finger upon the inner side of the arm. It will now be seen that when the machine is drawn through the grain the shoe will rest upon the ground and follow the contour of the same, as the arm, being pivoted, will permit the shoe to be raised and lowered, according to the character of the ground, and the point of the shoe will thus be forced under grain which has been thrown by rain, hail, or wind, or which otherwise has been thrown to the ground, the curved fingers at the sides of the shoe dividing the grain to the sickle-bar and to the side of the machine, while the curved finger at the upper side of the shoe will raise the thrown grain, bringing it in position to be cut by the'sickle-bar and finger-bar.

The pivoted arm of the shoe playing between the raised upper and lower portions of the recessed face of the plate, in the recess, the play of the said arm will be sufficiently limited to prevent the arm and shoe from either being tilted out of contact with the ground by being for the purpose of cutting the grain, leaving a long stubble, or for the purpose of transporting the machine over the ground. It follows that the device may be used with any machine,

and that by changing and inverting the construction of the device it may be used with a .machine having cut to the right as well as with machines having cut to the left; and various other slight changes and modifications may be made in the construction of the device without departing from the spirit of my. invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a divider for a harvesting-machine, the combination of a plate adapted to be secured to the forward end of the flange or side strip ICO of the table and having its inner face recessed,

cross-pieces secured with their ends to the plate and spanning the recess, an arm pivoted upon a bolt passing through the middle of the inner cross-piece and through the plate, roek- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto aflixed my signature {0 ing between the cross-pieces and the plate, a in presence of two witnesses. shoe at the .outer end of the pivoted arm, and rem'wardly-curved fingers secured to the upper side of the shoe and to the rear end of the same at both sides of the arm, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

GEORGE GRIMBLE.

Witnesses:

J OHN G. TnoRP, J. M. STANFIELD, 

